Dave Weise, Phil Riehlman

Dave Weise — Dave Weise joined Mattel in 1994, creating castings for Hot Wheels and Matchbox. He moved to Matchbox as a designer in 2006, where he rose to die-cast design manager, and retired in 2015. The Matchbox wiki does not list the cars he designed or his education.

Phil Riehlman — Phil Riehlman has worked with the Mattel team in El Segundo since the early 1990s. He designed more than 200 castings through 2012 and, in recent years, has focused on the Premium 1:43 scale line (15 cars so far). His projects include the Volkswagen Drag Bus, Drag Truck, Dairy Delivery, Ford GT-40, Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR34), Toyota Off-Road Truck and Fiat 500C; in the Elite 64 line he made nine castings, such as the Porsche 911 GT2 EVO 993.